NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 351 372
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 +158
Contract jobs citing NFS 5 13 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.088% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.31% 0.86% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £478 £535
25th Percentile £513 £481 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -14.85% -6.00%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £630
90th Percentile - £523 £748
England median daily rate £525 £501 £498
% change year-on-year +4.90% +0.60% -7.38%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,630 1,519 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.34% 10.34% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,001 1,423
10th Percentile £336 £263 £211
25th Percentile £433 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £747 £794 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 22
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.59 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -39.62% +57.67%
75th Percentile £26.00 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.00 £101.80 £71.76
England median hourly rate £48.11 £28.71 £46.18
% change year-on-year +67.60% -37.84% +82.89%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS job vacancy trend in London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
3 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Integration
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Security
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas File System
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Ceph
2 1 (20.00%) iptables
2 1 (20.00%) KVM
2 1 (20.00%) Lustre
2 1 (20.00%) Samba
2 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) QRadar
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) SELinux
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CyberArk
1 4 (80.00%) Qualys
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) SaltStack
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) VMware